Rex Ryan may not be predicting a Super Bowl title for his team this year, but he hasn’t discarded all of his trademark brashness.

After the New York Jets’ first training camp practice Friday, Ryan told reporters where he thinks he ranks among the defensive minds of the NFL.

“You know what? I look at myself as the best defensive coach in football,” Ryan said via the New York Daily News. “That’s saying something because Dick LeBeau is pretty darn good. Bill Belichick is pretty good. But that’s the way I’ve always believed. And you know what? I believe it because (of) the guys I coach with, there’s no doubt about that. And the guys I’ve coached. But that’s the truth. That’s kind of how I feel."

Despite his brash statement about himself, he said he won’t be making any more bold statements about his team after it failed to deliver on his Super Bowl predictions of past seasons.

“The arrows weren’t just coming on me,” Ryan said of past predictions. “They were coming on my players. That’s not what I wanted. If we weren’t going to succeed, I knew that the bullets should be coming my way. I understand that. But I never wanted to put the added pressure on the team. That wasn’t it. I thought by making that guarantee, it was only going to come down on me. But that wasn’t the case. But maybe (the media) would have said, ‘Didn’t you figure that out?’ No, I never figured that out. But I certainly did at the end of the season.”